Premarital Sexual Practice and Perception of Sexual and Reproductive Health Risks Associated With It Among in-School Youths In Shoa Robit Town, North Shoa Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia
| dc.contributor.advisor | Mengistu Daniel | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tadesse Nigussie | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-17T06:49:56Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-06T09:01:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-07-17T06:49:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-06T09:01:52Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Introduction: More than one billion people in the world are between the ages of 15 and 24, andmost live in developing countries. Unsafe sex is a major threat to the health and survival ofmillions of adolescents. Each year, one in 20 adolescents worldwide contracts an STI includingHIV/AIDS. Objectives: to assess premarital sexual practices and perception of sexual and reproductivehealth risks associated with it among in-school youths of Shoa Robit town, North Shoa Zone,Amhara National Regional state, Ethiopia Method of the study: An Institution based cross-sectional study design including bothquantitative and qualitative surveys was used. To determine number of students to be included inthe study, a single population proportion formula was used based on the assumption of 19%prevalence (p) in school youth premarital sex by using design effect 1.5 and at 95% confidenceinterval with marginal error of 4%, and finally the sample size would be 540. Result: Of the calculated sample size, total of 508 respondents completely filled to thequestionnaire in the study with response rate of 94.1%. Among a total participants 274(53.9%)were females and 234 (46.1%) were males. Among the study subjects, 224 (44.1%) of themreported that they had premarital sexual intercourse at the time of the survey, of which 106(47.3%) for males and 118(52.7%) for females. The mean age of sexual intercourse was 17.5±1.5 years for males and 16.8± 1.4 years for females. Youths who come from urban were morelikely experience sex than youths from rural (AOR=3.432; 95%CI=1.971, 5.965). Youths whodrink alcohol, smoke cigarette, chew chat and watch pornographic films were more likelyexperience sex than who did not (AOR= 2.538; 95%CI=( (1.378-4.674), (AOR= 6.715;95%CI=1.422,31.711), ( AOR= 5.946; 95%CI=0.998, 35.445) and (AOR= 5.119; 95%CI=2.983,8.784) respectively. Conclusion and recommendation: In general, from this particular study, we can conclude thatthe level of sexual and reproductive health risk perception towards STI including HIV/AIDS,among in school youths is generally minimal. Consequently, risky sexual practices are widelyprevalent. School based information, education and behavioral change communication intervention including life skill training should be given | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/8885 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Premarital Sexual Practice Perception of Sexual | en_US |
| dc.subject | en_US | |
| dc.title | Premarital Sexual Practice and Perception of Sexual and Reproductive Health Risks Associated With It Among in-School Youths In Shoa Robit Town, North Shoa Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |